Improvement in hshing-appabatus



XJ. KOEHLBR. FISHING APPARATUS.

Patented May 12,1868.

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IMPROVEMENT IN` FISHING-APPARATUS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: y y p i Be it known that I, Josnrn Kommen, ot the city and State of New York, have invented, made, and `applied to use a certain new and us eful Improvement in Fishing-Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had te the annexed drawing, making part of this specification, whereinfi Figure 1 is a side View of the apparatus as set for use, the stock being in section.-

Figure 2 is a plan of the apparatus in a folded form for transportation.

Similar parts are referred to by like letters.

In shing, it becomes very tedious to constantly hold the line in the hand, and jerk the same with rapidity when the sh bites, and if the' line is left for a moment the bait may he eaten olf.

The nature of my said invention consists n a springjerk and lever-trigger, over which the line is laid, the parts being secured to a stock in such a manner that when the fish bites at the bait the lever-trigger will be *disconnected`fl'orrfthespringfirhch, reclin'gjerlis the line to fasten the hook in theish's mouth." u

I construct my apparatus in such a manner that it may be folded into asmall compass vfor transportation, and when in use it may be easily screwed to a wharf, gunwale, pier, or other wood-work. where the party is'ishing, so that heldoes not have to hold any portion of the line or apparatus. y

In the drawing, a is the stock, carrying the parts of my apparatus. This stock is provided with a thumbscrew, b, with a gimlet-point, by means of which the stock can be firmly attached to anywood-work convenient for fishing.

c is the spring that acts, when disengaged, tojerlc the line. This spring, when not in useris laid at one side of the stock in the spring-holder 2, at one end of said stockLand the other end of said spring is held in place by the hook 3 being connected with the eye-4:

The band, hy which the hook 3 is attached to the' spring c, sets within a neck, near the end of the spring,

so that it can be turned around to accommodate the other parts, regardless of the direction in which the base i of the spring may be set into the socket 4 at the end of the stock a.

This spring c7 in its normal condition, stands at right angles, or .nearly so, to the stock a, and issecured by i the bolt 5. When, however, the apparatus is set for catching fish, the spring c is strained or bent down to the l lever-trigger (l, where the catch 6 takes into an eye, 7, near the hook 3, and holds the spring.

- The line is laid across the hook, and a hook, 8, at the end of the lever d, and thence passes to the spring. hold-fast e. As s oo'n as the fish pulls o'n the'line, the lever d is moved, drawing the 'catch 6 from the eye 7, so

that the spring c ilies back, and jerks upon the line suddenly and-violently, to cause the hook to catch firmly into the tishs mouth. i 'i y i A small hell,f, at the end of the spring c, calls attention to the apparatus when discharged, and the-struggling of the fish shows, bythe bending of the springend the ringing ofthe bell, that ashfhas been caught This spring c might be made as an arm extending from a coiled or helical spring, if preferred. y The falcrum 9 is an arm, h, that is secured to the stock a by the joint 10, and an arm,]t, at right angles to the arm h, is held by an eye, l1, that is tted so that it can beslipped along in a slot in the stock a, so that the eye 11 passes over the end of It', and is held in position by the nut 12. When this nut 12 is released, and i the eye slipped back out of the way, the arm h can be turned down into the stock a, the arm h coming down upon the face of the stock a, as seen in iig. 2, lthe catch 6 entering a mortise, 13, in the stock, and thel triggerlever lying at the side of the arm h.

It will be evident that'when the parts are folded together they occupy but little space, hence can. be easily carried from place to place. V

In order to be able to make use ofa sinker, andnot have the lweight thereof operate the trigger-lever, I

employ the adjustable steel-yard n, that is made with a spring acting upon a follower that also becomes the nut' for the screw-rod o of the steel-yard eye; andp is a chain connecting said eye (of o) with the and of the lever.

d, so that ns much power canbe applied by adjusting the rod o us will counteract the weight of the sinker and line under the motion of the vessel or :erster to which it may bel subjected.

The spring-hook g forms a. convenient connection betiveen the chain and eye o. Thisspring-hook q is M, formed with the arms 14 that extend, from the spring-coil 15, and cross each other, terminating as returned hooksvl, so that the hooks 16 will be separated when the arms 14 nre pressed toward each other'.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 y 1. The trigger-lever d, applied substantially as specified, in combination with the spring-jerk, the parts; receiving the fishing-line as set forth. i

2. The swngin.g.arn11t,.iu combination with the trigger-leyer and holding-eye 11, or its equivalent, so that the parts may be folded us set forth. I

` 3. The steel-yard n, in combination with the trigger-lever d and jerk-spring c, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. l 1 f H 4f The spring-hook g, formedl of the arms 1 4, extending from the-coil 15, and terminating in the reverse hooks 16, so that the hooks can be opened by pressi-ng the arms 14 toward ealch other, as set forth.

In witness -where-of, I'lmve hereunto set my signature, this sixth day of April, 1868.

JOSEPH KOEHLER.

Witnesses v GEO. D. WALKER, MMM GEO. T. PINCKNEY. 

